real life vs real-life

real life

noun
  • Life outside the Internet. 

  • Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama. 

  • Pressing day-to-day commitments. 

real-life

adj
  • A person or object that exists in reality. 

  • As happens in real life; not fictional or theoretical; actual as opposed to believed or assumed. 

How often have the words real life and real-life occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )